I saw a really cool plane (perennial)

I have been extremely into planes since I was a little kid. Some of my earliest computer memories are settling in for a 5 hour DCA →LHR flight in Microsoft Flight Simulator 98. This is proof that I once had an attention span, as this was five straight hours of looking at this:

But with nothing but a black sky over a black ocean, as it was an overnight mission. I left the autopilot on the entire time but thought I was doing the flying, and then almost always crashed when landing at Heathrow. It rules to be 8 years old.

A few months back, Flightradar 24 released Sky Cards, which is a phone game designed specifically to ruin my life. The game uses ADS-B data from Flightradar 24 to allow you to "catch" the actual planes flying over your location, which then gives you a trading card for that aircraft (or upgrades your existing card, because you also get XP). The card can also have a "glow" (uh oh holographic neural pathway activated), some are super rare. You can try to catch all of the plane models, or all of the tails, or unlock all of the airports in the world. It is everything Pokemon is, but in the actual sky, with actual planes, and like ten different meters you can grind to fill. Again: my life, ruined, etc.

I have caught basically all of the planes that fly over Portland (it shows you when the aircraft has a unique tail/reg, so you're not just repeatedly catching one of the many buses that goes between PDX and SFO again and again), and now spend a lot of time "traveling" to airports around the world to catch rare gliders outside of Melbourne or rare DC-3 Turbines flying into airports in Antarctica. 

Anyways, all of this is to say that I SAW A REALLY COOL PLANE outside of Chino while I was based at LAX.

I had never seen this model before anywhere, and the coloring immediately caught my eye, and why the heck was there a Dutch flag on the tail?! It turns out that N911J was delivered to the Dutch air force in 1949, and there are only 10 flying in the world, and only one flying in the US. And omg it's BEAUTIFUL. 

That's really it, I saw a beautiful plane! I am always thrilled when I can learn more about a rare aircraft that I find somewhere. I AM going to catch that DC-3 Turbine going to Zucchelli this season, dang it!